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In an op-ed, Research Scholar Robert Frank examines the economics of Obamacare

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "We must ask those who would repeal Obamacare how they propose to solve the adverse-selection problem. That problem is not an abstraction invented by economists to justify trampling individual liberties. As experience in most countries around the world has confirmed, it is a profound source of market failure that renders unregulated insurance markets a catastrophically ineffective way of providing access to health care."

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